Sights and Sounds from Commencement 2015

Highlights of Sunday’s ceremony About 25,000 people filed onto Nickerson Field on Sunday for Boston University’s 142nd Commencement and to celebrate the Class of 2015. Under partly sunny skies and seasonal temperatures, they listened as Emmy-winning broadcast journalist and talk show host Meredith Vieira (Hon.’15) delivered the main address, looked on as the University conferred […]

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The Shark

BU Commencement speaker Vieira’s memorable lesson on dancing to your own tune Meredith Vieira and a surprise friend offered a lesson about nonconformance to BU graduates during the University’s 142nd Commencement Sunday. Photo by Chitose Suzuki. Early in her Commencement address Sunday, Meredith Vieira fretted that the graduates might forget her speech years from now. She […]

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NAACP President Delivers Baccalaureate Address

“Let us march on until victory is won,” urged Cornell William Brooks (STH’87, Hon.’15) A Methodist minister as well as president and CEO of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, Cornell William Brooks returned to his alma mater Sunday to deliver the 2015 Baccalaureate address in what he called a homecoming to […]

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Triumph over Traumatic Brain Injury

Project CAREER prepares students for rigors of school, work Anna Saucier (CAS’18) (right), who is enrolled in Project CAREER, meets with technology and employment coordinator Amanda Nardone (SAR’13). Photo by Jackie Ricciardi. Anna Saucier’s life changed in an instant during her sophomore year of high school. She remembers zipping across a soccer field to head […]

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Provost Celebrates Students for Top Honors

Dozens earn national or BU-sponsored scholarships, awards Some of the more than three dozen BU students who were honored by the Office of the Provost at a reception at the Castle on October 18. Photo by David Green. On the Saturday of Parents’ Weekend, University Provost Jean Morrison recognized 38 students as the winners of […]

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Series – My Summer Internship

Five BU students discuss their summer internships, including how they landed their position, what it taught them about the real world, whether it lived up to their expectations, and what was most rewarding and most frustrating about the experience. Read more

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